Wedding of Travis Mullen & Randi Crouse

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

We’re gathered here for a very special reason; we’re here to join TRAVIS and RANDI as husband and wife in marriage.

Marriage isn’t something to be taken lightly or done half-heartedly—marriage is the complete expression of love between a man and a woman.

No one can force this couple to be married.

Not society, not friends, not family, not even the circumstances life has placed on them. 

Marriage is an act of choice. 

It’s a choice that should be taken seriously.

Therefore marriage is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but thoughtfully, deliberately, and in reverent fear before God.

Into this holy union TRAVIS and RANDI now come to be joined.

DECLARATION OF CONSENT

TO GROOM: 

TRAVIS will you have this woman to be your wife, to live together in the holy covenant of marriage?

Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live?

If so, answer, “I will.”

TO BRIDE:

RANDI, will you have this man to be your husband, to live together in the holy covenant of marriage?

Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

If so answer, “I will.”

THE MARRIAGE VOWS

Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that at the beginning of creation God “made them male and female”. 

“For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.” 

Consequently, they are no longer two, but one flesh.

You have come to be made husband and wife. 

Will you join hands and repeat these vows after me?

(The Groom repeats these vows as I instruct.)

I, TRAVIS, take you, RANDIto be my wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death; as God is my witness, I give you my promise.

(The Bride repeats these vows as the minister instructs.)

I, RANDI, take you, TRAVISto be my husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death; as God is my witness, I give you my promise.

READING OF SCRIPTURE

The Word of God describes the kind of love we are to have, each for the other:

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.    Love never fails.  1 Corinthians 13:4-8

 (PRAYER FOR THE COUPLE)

PRONOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGE

Now that TRAVIS and RANDI have given themselves to each other by solemn vows, before us and before God as witness,

I pronounce that they are husband and wife.

Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.=

YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU, MR. & MRS. Travis Mullen